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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.
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Produced by Tom Rosenthal
Edited by Rose De Larrabeiti
Mixed by Mike Woolley
Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton
Incidental music by Maddie Ashman
End song: 'Probably Nothing' by Luke Sital-Singh
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0:00.0 | Hello, sorry to bother you. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
0:08.5 | I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes. |
0:19.0 | Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? Is there a day of the week that you favour? |
0:46.3 | Well I'm working, so when it's my day off basically, every sort of week I have a different day off. |
0:52.3 | So whatever day off, that's your favourite one. |
0:55.0 | Basically, yeah. |
0:56.0 | Now can you take me through as much detail as you can? |
0:59.0 | On that day off of yours, what is your idea of a kind of ideal day? |
1:04.0 | Um, family, don't see my grandkids, just chill, yeah, just have a walk around the park or wet, any fresh air. |
1:12.2 | Because I'm from London, you don't, well, you'll get it here, but genuinely, you don't get |
1:15.9 | fresh air, there's traffic, so just get away from that. So anywhere, just spend a bit of quality |
1:20.2 | time we misses because we both work in, so yeah, pub lunch somewhere. Here would be ideal, |
1:25.4 | but they haven't got a pub here, so, so yeah we need to build a pub here and then you |
1:29.0 | be absolutely fine yeah yeah tell me what it's like being a grandparent yeah it's the best |
1:34.6 | yeah tell me why i don't know it's just um it's magical yeah it's just um it's magical every time |
1:40.0 | you're the granddad and grandma and they love you and, well, my kids love me as well, |
1:46.0 | but, you know what I mean? |
1:47.3 | Yeah, but I don't know, it's, because you haven't got that responsibility, you can go down |
1:51.6 | and visit them. |
1:52.3 | Yeah. |
1:52.7 | And then a couple of hours, you can come home and just relax. |
1:55.4 | And you're responsible if you like, if I take them out, of course. |
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